Overview
- The Cámara Federal de Casación Penal revoked Rudnev’s house arrest and directed his transfer to a Servicio Penitenciario Federal unit, but conditioned any move on a comprehensive medical evaluation.
- The court cited lack of sufficient ties to Argentina, proven international mobility, significant financial means and links to a transnational criminal structure as reasons to overturn home detention.
- Rudnev is recovering from a recent inguinal hernia operation and his lawyers have announced an appeal to the Corte Suprema to try to keep him under medical supervision at home.
- He faces federal charges that include leading a coercive transnational group known as Ashram Shambala and alleged crimes such as human trafficking for sexual exploitation, reduction to servitude, falsification of civil status and aggravated transport of drugs.
- The probe began after hospital staff in Bariloche raised concerns about a pregnant woman in March 2025, and the revocation could speed formal pretrial custody while raising questions about how authorities will balance his medical needs with secure detention.